Bergson, Eliot, and American Literature [electronic resource] / Paul Douglass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Douglass, Paul, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--United States.

Criticism.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965--Criticism and interpretation.

Eliot, T. S.

Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941--Influence.

Bergson, Henri.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Until now, Bergson's widely acknowledged impact on American literature has never been comprehensively mapped. Author Paul Douglass explains and evaluates Bergson's meaning for American writers, beginning with Eliot and moving through Ransom, Penn Warren, and Tate to Faulkner, Wallace Stevens, Henry Miller, William Carlos Williams, and others. It will be a standard point of reference.Bergson was the continental philosopher of the early 1900s, a celebrity, as Sartre would later be. Profoundly influential throughout Europe, and widely discussed in England and America in the Teens, Twenties, and

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Texts and Abbreviations Used; Introduction; 1. Bergson and Bergsonism; 2. Bergsonian Intuition and Modernist Aesthetics; 3. Eliot's Unacknowledged Debt; 4. Time, Intuition, and Self..Knowledge in Eliot's Poetry; 5. Eliot, Bergson, and the Southern Critics; 6. Deciphering Faulkner's Uninterrupted Sentence; 7. Faulkner and the Bergsonian Self; 8. Bergson and American Modernism; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [195]-201.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6016-2

0-8131-6163-0

OCLC:

557562430